Collections . Community See All. 17,859 people like this. In January 2006, the foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California (USC) and was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor and friend of the Institute, Julio Botton. In one year — between 2013–2014 and 2014–15 – the number of people intersecting with the institute's testimony nearly doubled, from 3.6 million to 6.5 million. Videos by Theme ; Creative Storytelling ; Photo Galleries ; Podcasts ; What We Do . 396 check-ins. [17] Learn more about public online events and hear the personal histories from the witnesses to genocide themselves. The institute's other education programs include: Testimony is reaching a broad international audience through the institute's Visual History Archive, as well as IWitness, its YouTube channel, and its Web portals in 12 languages. Julio first recorded a testimony for the Visual History Archive in 1998 and in March 2020 recorded a Dimensions in Testimony interactive biography in Spanish. Today we mourn the murder of eight people in Georgia that includes six Asian women — and we are appalled by the increased acts of anti-Asian hate and violence across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. USC Shoah Foundation: Changing the world through testimony. Liberation75 has brought together over 15 of the world's leading Holocaust education organizations, including USC Shoah Foundation, to teach your students the important lessons of the Holocaust. Continue reading. Finding there were few existing options for restoring tape-based material, the institute's ITS team created new software programs to help them recover both audio and visual problems. [citation needed], About 1,200 testimonies are also available to any member of the public with an Internet connection who registers to access the Visual History Archive Online. More than 200 educators have participated in advanced training and the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century programs in the U.S., Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.[18]. 396 were here. ABOUT USC SHOAH FOUNDATION. [19] The Visual History Archive features more than 1,200 testimonies accessible worldwide.[20]. Focus on the Interview: The Inaugural Endowed Interviewer Collection - … It distinguishes itself by focusing on interdisciplinary study organized around three themes to advance the analysis of genocide and systematic mass violence on an international scale. Now, many (many) months into this fight against Covid-19, it feels like we are rewriting our own story. 18,958 people follow this. In March 2019, the institute celebrated the grand opening of their new Global Headquarters[3] on USC's campus. Dedicated to making audiovisual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other g... See More. 2020 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellows…, Explore the ways that our lives can be shaped by the experiences of our ancestors through the power of firsthand testimonies.…, Teaching About Genocide: An Interactive Lesson for Students. In this clip from the Visual History Archive, Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi addresses the importance of reconciliation. In this lecture, Alan Rosen considers the special manner of witness found in Holocaust-era calendars composed in ghettos, in camps, and in hiding. Her family was modern yet traditional. Our Story. While saddened by the news of his passing, I’m filled with immense gratitude for having had the opportunity to hear his incredible life’s story in the final weeks of his life. This week’s theme focuses on Countering Violence and Extremism. Kori Street, senior director of programs and operations, Karen Jungblut, director of global initiatives, Anita Pace, managing director of technology, Andrea Waldron, executive director of development, Andi Gitow, director of media, strategy and partnerships, This page was last edited on 13 March 2021, at 23:56. It was an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “Burying My Bubby During the Pandemic” written by a comedy writer named Eitan Levine who, like me, grew up with a grandmother who survived the Holocaust. 396 check-ins. Multimedia . 398 were here. Partnership will expand the reach of Institute’s educational materials on Armenian Genocide . In addition to broadening its reach, the institute dedicates considerable attention to maintaining each testimony's audio-visual quality, to protect it from degrading over time. Get Directions (213) 740-6001. sfi.usc.edu. Since its inception, the institute's Visual History Archive has expanded its collection to include testimony from survivors and witnesses of other genocides, including the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda,[5] the Nanjing Massacre, Armenian Genocide and Guatemalan Genocide. In 2015, to underscore this priority, the institute added Global Outreach as its fourth organizational pillar. The bulk of the video testimonies expound on the Holocaust, including such experiences as Jewish Survivors, Rescuers and Aid-Providers, Sinti and Roma Survivors, Liberators, Political Prisoners, Jehovah's Witness Survivors, War Crimes Trial Participants, Eugenic Policies Survivors, Non-Jewish Forced Laborers and Homosexual Survivors,[2] but USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive expanded in 2013 to include testimonies of Tutsi survivors of the Rwandan genocide and has expanded in recent years to include interviews with survivors of other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, Cambodian genocide, Guatemalan Genocide, Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing, China, and the current Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. The 2015 theme, Music, was anchored by. The original aim of the institute was to record testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust as a collection of videotaped interviews. USC Shoah Foundation and Comcast launched a five-year partnership in 2014 to annually bring programming to millions of customers over the course of seven weeks in the spring commemorating Genocide Awareness Month. Through our research and educational programs, the Institute harnesses the power of its archive of personal testimonies from witnesses to genocide in order to do our part to build a better world. The center will award up to 10 fellows every year. 396 were here. The complete Visual History Archive is available at 49 institutions around the world, while smaller collections are available at 199 sites in 33 countries. I had only just met Marcus, albeit virtually, weeks before when he shared his testimony with USC Shoah Foundation on January 26th. In this online lecture, Alan Rosen considers the special manner of witness found in Holocaust-era calendars composed in ghettos, in camps, and in hiding. Stronger Than Hate, an initiative that draws on the power of eyewitness testimony to help students and the general public recognize and counter antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of hatred. 650 W 35th St (907.56 mi) Los Angeles, CA, CA 90089. On a daily basis, the institute posts stories and blogs about projects and people, as well as a new clip of testimony culled from the Visual History Archive. Each year, the series is themed with a feature film anchoring the program offerings. With more than 112,000 hours of testimony stored in the Archive, indexing technology is essential for enabling users to pinpoint topics of interest. 396 were here. A survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, Roth was a dedicated educator and author who taught generations of people around the world about the horrors of the Holocaust. Our storytelling projects are both based on and inspired by the more than 55,000 testimonies in the Institute’s archive. Violence, Emotion and Behavioral Change studies the nature of genocide and mass violence and how they impact emotional, social, psychological, historical and physical behavior. About See All. Separated when their families each fled the Nazis, they each believed the other had perished. He was also an active speaker for many years with the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City and elsewhere. The institute also provides professional development to prepare educators worldwide to use testimony in relevant and engaging ways—providing an experience that takes students beyond the textbook. The Visual History Archive is digitized, fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked to the minute. USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research IWitness Visual History Archive Request Permission for Use × Search. The institute also organizes a yearly series of academic events that brings scholars to USC to present lectures, film screenings and panel discussions. USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor and friend of the Institute, Julio Botton. 397 were here. The marking of fast days and festivals tell a remarkable story; the form, organization, and languages of the calendars convey a related one. The horrific events in Georgia underscore the importance of working to counter anti-Asian racism. Moderated by Peter Mancall…, Forced Separation, Miraculous Reunion. How the Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars Bear Witness, Identity, Belonging, Legacy: How Testimony Makes Us Stronger Than Hate, Remembering the Victims of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, Read our executive director's opinion in the Jewish Journal, We lost a giant in the fight against hate, Week 12: Countering Violence and Extremism. I began to read and found myself immediately wrapped inside his writing which was so honest it was cathartic. Among them are the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Warner Bros. Pictures. 17,859 people like this. Global outreach is conducted through owned media such as websites and Institute supported documentaries and exhibits; earned media including prominent national and international press coverage about its programs; and shared media distributed across a wide range of social platforms. Our education programs bring the voices of survivors into classrooms, impacting future generations to build a better world based on empathy, understanding and respect. Our mission is to develop empathy, understanding and respect through testimony. USC Shoah Foundation: Changing the world through testimony. Genocide and Intergenerational Trauma: The Armenian and Jewish Experiences, Center for Advanced Genocide Research Event, A conversation featuring Salphi Ghazarian, Umit Kurt, Beth Meyerowitz, and Michael Renov The institute also offers a subscription for partial access to the Archive. He was also an active speaker for many years with the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City and elsewhere. With an eye toward expanding its audience, USC Shoah Foundation broadcasts its content across many platforms. During the digitization project, it was discovered that about 5 percent of the 235,005 tapes had audio or visual problems, some to the point of being unwatchable. USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) and other genocides, a compelling voice for education and action. ACCESS TO THE TESTIMONIES IN THE USC Shoah Foundation'S VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE Online Access. About See All. I immediately reached out to Eitan and asked if his grandmother’s testimony was in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. We are very saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Irving Roth on February 16, 2021, at the age of 91. Our Story. YouTube. …, Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2020 Lev Student Research Fellows, An online event with Lucy Sun (USC undergraduate student, History major) and Rachel Zaretsky (USC graduate student in Art, USC Roski School of Art and Design) On Monday I received a voicemail from Suzan Trevor that her father Marcus Segal had passed away. [13] In 2015, the Center for Advanced Genocide Research in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music and USC Visions and Voices hosted the international conference titled "Singing in the Lion's Mouth: Music as Resistance to Violence", which included two days of programming that highlighted the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness. The stories we are now drawn to are those of connections, even if experienced by individuals who are thousands of miles apart. [2], The institute aspires to be the world's academic authority on the study of genocide and personal testimony. A virtual field trip for educators and their students. To encourage the use of the testimonies in its archive for educational purposes, the USC Shoah Foundation provides a variety of services. USC Shoah Foundation: Changing the world through testimony. Holocaust education is a powerful pathway to commemorate and educate about past genocides and events occurring in the world today such as human rights violations. See how your support helped us make a measurable change. Indexing allows students, teachers, professors, researchers and others around the world to retrieve entire testimonies or search for specific sections within testimonies through a set of nearly 64,000 keywords and phrases, 1.8 million names, and 695,000 images. IWitness is an educational website developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education that provides access to more than 1,500 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. The center holds international conferences and workshops and hosts fellows and scholars in residence to conduct research using the vast resources available at the University of Southern California. 82 Years Later, Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg were inseparable best friends before the Holocaust. Each testimony is indexed by a native speaker and each minute of video is timecoded in English to a proprietary search engine using Institute-patented technology. In 2017 the institute initiated a successful multi-channel campaign called #strongerthanhate in order to provide teachers, parents and community leaders educational tools to help "confront the seeds of hate". USC Shoah Foundation's testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive, one of the largest digital collections of its kind in the world. The number increases to 15 million when including media exposure, TV broadcasts, museum exhibits, presentations at conferences and workshops, and social media. USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research IWitness Visual History Archive Request Permission for Use × Search. Institute fellows, staff and student interns participate in more than a dozen academic events on the USC campus annually. [2], The institute, in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, held an international conference in November 2014 at USC titled "Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler's List", examining the trajectories of memory, media and technology throughout a range of disciplines and from a variety of vantage points and venues. Twitter. The Visual History Archive is fully viewable at 51 subscribing institutions in 13 countries around the world, mainly universities and museums. To ensure that the world's largest database of genocide testimony lives in perpetuity, the institute has created a digital collections management technology used by clients to preserve their ageing media. [15], IWitness, the institute's flagship educational website for teachers and their students, provides students access to 1,600 testimonies for guided exploration. Researchers and thought leaders have utilized the testimonies in more than 121 scholarly works and the archive has been central to dozens of conferences across a range of disciplines. Also under the Access umbrella is the institute's collections unit, which works to expand the Visual History Archive by conducting additional interviews, integrating testimony taken by other institutions, and providing training on the institute's preferred methodology for gathering testimony. USC Shoah Foundation: Changing the world through testimony. USC Shoah Foundation's testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive,[4] one of the largest digital collections of its kind in the world. And, once again, when digging into the Visual History Archive for stories of the past that exemplify this idea, there is no shortage of testimonies to lean on. The institute boasts a strong following on. In 2014 the institute initiated a successful social media campaign called #BeginsWithMe to engage with the millennial generation. [16] The institute has trained more than 39,000 educators around the world to incorporate testimony into classroom lessons. About 211 institutions in 34 countries have contracted for these smaller collections. USC Shoah Foundation: Changing the world through testimony. And as with testimony in general, what is omitted—a date or a... Liberation75's Student Education Days are running from April 7-8, 2021, beginning at 6am PST on April 7! Approximately 1.6 million students, researchers, teachers and laypersons view the testimonies every year. Get Directions (213) 740-6001. sfi.usc.edu. YouTube. They are a deeper look into the emotional complexities of our survivor stories and told through the written word, video, audio and photography. Visitors and students at authentic sites of history and memorials can discover curated IWalks—tours that connect specific locations of memory and memorialization with testimonies from survivors and witnesses of genocide, violence and mass atrocity. [citation needed], The Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the institute. The Visual History Archive is digitized, fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked to the minute. This past May, a friend sent me an article he knew I would appreciate. Login to access IWitness, which provides educators and students a searchable collection of more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive. It is like our obsession with separation has been viewed in a new lens, a wider one. ABOUT USC SHOAH FOUNDATION. [12] It continues to incorporate new collections of genocide eyewitness testimonies while simultaneously fostering scholarly activities that confront real-world problems the testimonies address. Approximately 17,000 high school students and over 5,000 educators in 57 countries and all 50 U.S. states have used IWitness. The month of April is internationally designated as Genocide Awareness Month. Kori Street in Conversation with Freddy Muntaguha and Tali Nates, Challenging the Shame Paradigm: Jewish Women’s Narratives of Sexual(ized) Violence During the Holocaust, A Lecture by Lauren Cantillon, 2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies, Ben Ferencz recalls his opening statement in the Nuremberg Trials. Community See All. Twitter. USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocau... st and other genocides a compelling voice for education and action. The digitization of the entire Archive took five years to complete, from 2008 to 2012. They are an opportunity to explore the impact that these voices have and the way in which testimony drives our understanding of conflict and grief as well as resilience, resistance and hope. Dedicated to making audiovisual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other g... See More. Lala, an animated and live action VR film developed by USC Shoah Foundation in partnership with Discovery Communications, Discovery Education, and Global Nomads Group, is based on the testimony of Holocaust survivor Roman Kent. USC Shoah Foundation and Delirio Films have completed an animated short film that brings to life the remarkable childhood journey of Holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer escaping Nazi Germany, as she faced the choices that made her who she is today. [14], Digital Genocide Studies examines how big data and large datasets, including the 53,000 testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, can be used to find patterns in the field of mass violence and its resistance. The Visual History Archive is open to the public online for full searches.. You can watch more than 3,000 testimony videos from survivors … Resistance to Genocide and Mass Violence focuses on acts of resistance and elements of defiance that slow down or stop genocidal processes. With contributions from technology companies, the institute devised a preservation system where the original videos were digitized into a variety of commonly used formats. They were reunited just a few short months ago thanks to a combination of international partnerships, astute research, and the power of survivor testimony. Developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, IWalk unlocks a new window into our past. We lost a giant in the fight against hate yesterday - Karen Wells, educator from Midland High School in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, Discovery Education DEN leader, and IWitness Master Educator and Teaching Fellow. 650 W 35th St (907.56 mi) Los Angeles, CA, CA 90089. The Institute joins her students, Discovery Education colleagues, educators worldwide, friends and her family in mourning her loss. The vast majority of the testimonies contain a complete personal history of life before, during, and after the interviewee's first-hand experience with genocide. They spoke Polish, kept kosher, went to public school, and celebrated the Jewish holidays; she and her four siblings were assimilated in the way that many young Jewish people in the United States are today. Stronger Than Hate at USC Shoah Foundation, 4/7-8: Liberation75 Student Education Days, Stronger than Hate: Our Response to Racism and the Atlanta-Area Spa Killings. [citation needed], Using testimony from the Visual History Archive, the institute develops teaching tools for educators across the disciplinary spectrum, such as social studies, English Language Arts, government, foreign language, world history, American history, and character education. [2] It was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The institute will continue to develop digital technologies to preserve and enhance the Visual History Archive, while building access pathways for a broad audience of students, educators, scholars and the general public. Fanny was born as Fala Granek in 1922 in Lodz, Poland -- a diverse city where Jewish and Polish students intermingled. The foundation conducted nearly 52,000 video testimonies between 1994 and 1999, and currently has more than 55,000 testimonies. They average a little over two hours each in length and were conducted in 63 countries and 41 languages.[2]. Twenty-five years ago, in October, 1995, a then 72 year-old Fanny Starr sat down in her living room in Denver, Colorado and recorded a two-hour long testimony with USC Shoah Foundation. Videos by Theme ; Creative Storytelling ; Photo Galleries ; Podcasts ; What We Do . "Shoah Foundation" redirects here. 18,960 people follow this. 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Scholars in many fields have utilized the vast resources of the Visual History Archive to teach more than 400 university courses across four continents, including 112 courses at USC. Founded in 2014, the center is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and genocide, specifically discussing the origins of genocide and how to intervene in the cycle that leads to mass violence. IWitness brings educators and their students (ages 13-18) together at the intersection of Holocaust education and the development of critical literacies needed in the 21st century. Multimedia . Students can engage with the testimonies and bring them into their own multimedia projects via a built-in video editor. Full Length Testimonies. At the outset of the pandemic last March, USC Pacific Asia Museum experienced increased acts of anti-Asian racism that spurred discussions about the need for a campus-wide initiative to confront the rising tide of identity-based hatred.